Ratings & Reviews for Garmin Forerunner 255 Smart Watch with Step Counter, Heart Rate Monitor and GPS Enabled
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What Customers Are Saying
The fitness watch offers excellent performance, with users praising its accurate tracking, long battery life, and user-friendly interface. It is well-suited for active users, particularly runners and triathletes, with features like customizable workouts and useful post-activity data. While a few customers reported minor issues, the overall sentiment is very positive, and the watch is widely recommended for its comprehensive set of features and capabilities.
Customer review summary generated by AI, including incentivized reviews.Cool watch!
Been using it for weights, running, and skiing and it does all of those amazing. Most of it seems pretty accurate and I really annoy the music storage.
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Love it, great update from Forerunner 645 Music!
Nice display, and great features. Definitely an upgrade.
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Great Features
I got the 255 about a month ago and have loved it. It's a great way to step up your fitness. You are really able to dial in your workouts and recovery periods. It's a great fitness coach for a small price.
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I love this thing!
I got this about a month ago and I absolutely love it! It has great features and your able to break the data down way more than my Fitbit. This is also a lot more realistic and accurate when it comes to step counting and calorie counting.
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Perfection!
I replaced my lost Apple Watch as I’ve started running in my retirement. Love that I can leave my phone at home and still enjoy my music. I’m also loving all the health stats it provides. Hoping to use it to up my run training
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Features
Very happy, had the 645 music before this and this is much better!!!
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Humble but powerful
This watch has surprised me in that it does everything very well. Running statistics, health status, and battery life are all top-notch. I am very happy that I purchased the Forerunner 255 Music.
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2 weeks in I love it
I am still learning the features because winter weather forces most of my workouts indoors but I love the customizability of the face, the long batter life, the ability to track indoor bike and treadmill workouts, and sleep data.
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It Is Really Good, Just Not Great
The only critique I have is that it is not touch screen Other than that, this is a good watch! Does what I need it to do and so far has been easy to work with. I am going to upgrade to the 955 though to take advantage of the touch screen and more storage space for downloaded songs.
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Measurable improvements in fitness
The main benefits of this watch are Bluetooth connectivity to phone AND headphones and the real time pace adjustments or guidance you can get while working out. The pace tracker is that main advantage I personally get out of this watch compared to an Apple Watch. Additionally, the ability to create workouts mile by mile, segment by segment and so on with the ability to set goals for each is something that puts this above the Apple Watch. I’ve seen improvements in VO2max and HRV and lowered my av...
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255m
The watch has worked great but I haven't used the music feature. Should have put the money towards the 265 and some of the features it offers. This is my mistake not Garmins. The 255m has worked great with the feature it offers.
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The best of both worlds
I love the advanced training features, and the ability to use it as a smartwatch!
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Does not work
I received my new Forerunner 255 music watch two weeks ago and have been wholly unimpressed. Now, it is unusable. Crickets from Garmin support and sounds like this is a worldwide issue. Previous FitBit user for years and years- never had an issue. Wishing I would not have switched at this point.
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Great watch, annoying sensor
I have had the watch for 3 weeks and overall it’s really good. It’s great for fitness and health tracking. The only issue I am facing is that mid workout the heart rate sensor stops reporting and I am left in the dark until I take off the watch clean the sensor, restart the watch then restart my workout. Very annoying.
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Great overall
Had this for a while, been reliable and useful. Battery lasts about a week depending on how much I use it. Great for tracking activities and just day to day watch.
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Overall good product
Works well, nice features so far happy with the watch for running and CrossFit
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Great Tracking Features
Works very well with fast, accurate data. Love the Garmin coach feature!
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Absolutely love the stress, sleep score, and GPS for all the physical activities.
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Amazing Watch
Had a Forerunner 235 for 7 years. Once that watch died, I upgraded to this one and the new features like HRV status are amazing. This was an awesome refresh on a great line. The only thing that I wish was slightly better was battery life, but it is still very solid. With no GPS tracking this watch last well over a week, and about 5-7 days with daily GPS tracking activities.
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Love this watch
This is the best running watch I have ever had, and that covers a pretty wide range from Apple to Google and a number of stops in between. All the information I want while I'm running at a glance... And since I don't wear my glasses when I run checking my watch while running without having to hold it at just the right angle 3 inches from my face is a BIG deal!! The only problem , and it's not a big deal, I wish the music would load a bit quicker. But I love the feature. One suggestion, as ...
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